OnePlus Teases DR-1 Drone, Scheduled to Take Off Next Month

According to the latest tweet from OnePlus, they are getting into the drone business. From what the tweet says, the product should launch next month, and it shall be named the DR-1. And given that it is March 31, and not April 1, it may be safe to assume this is not an April Fools’ joke.

Details are extremely scarce, but OnePlus did post a quick snippet on Vine, although, it does not show off too much. If in fact the company does launch a drone, it would be cool if you could control it from your smartphone. However, in the last teasers OnePlus posted, it almost looks like a guy is holding a large controller of some sorts.

Anyway, check out the teaser, then let us know if you want a OnePlus drone. And yes, there will be invites. Just kidding, we don’t know that for sure.

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It’s a cheerson cx-10, which is $20 shipped on sites like banggood.com. The power switch broke off of mine on the first crash, and it’s in a “protected” area of the quad.

Peter Somjit

DR-1 is out now as of march 31 11:27PM PST time

p0k3y

It looks to be real – just got an e-mail invite to buy 1 for 19.99 with 7.34 shipping. I am at the checkout page with paypal payment method. Not sure if I want to pull the trigger though… It’s just a tiny basic quadcopter, w/o camera or anything else.

Guest

droid my life I started working from home, doing various simple jobs which only required desktop or laptop computer and internet access and I couldn’t be happier… It’s been six months since i started this and i made so far total of 36,000 dollars… Basicly i profit about 80 dollars every hour and work for 3 to 4 hours a day.And the best part about this job is that you can decide when to work yourself and for how long and you get a paycheck weekly.—>

I’d be so interested in this company, if they’d just offer a 5″ phone and focus on that and leave out all the other crap…

GPier

Doubtful

seldomused

I was really hoping it was a remote control to compete with the logitech harmony line.

fauxshizzl

It would be cool to see them wade into the drone market, I really hope it is not controlled by a phone though. Parrot already showed the world how terrible flying that way is.

David Narada Brown

it has a integrated camera that displays on ur smartphone after pairing. what else could they have done to enter this crowded market? parrot drones rule this market!

jer85008

Aren’t there a bazillion drone manufacturers in the world now? I’m still not sure why anyone would really need one, and what could they possibly be bringing to the table other than a cheaper price. Seems like a waste of time for them.

schoat333

Clearly they intended to use their superior marketing skills to sell more then all of those companies….. Well, eventually…. OK, in 100 years, because 1 day a week sales…

B T

I don’t know the figures, but it’s predicted to become a major industry (using them, I mean) very quickly. Video production alone has been using them for a little while, with great results. But there’s law enforcement, and who knows what else. I agree, though that unless they have a more affordable price than the rest, it’s probably not going to do anything. Once GoPro releases their model, it’s going to be even tougher for newcomers.

schoat333

You can only buy one if it crashes into you.

Lucky Armpit

Us hobbyists hate the word “drone” and all the negative connotations associated with it. Really wish the medial would call it a “quadcopter” or “multirotor”.

I’m really more referring to the alarmist media sites that report on “drones” as being the end of the world. I’m totally okay with the non-PC here. 😀

j

Don’t let the idiots hijack the term then. Use ‘drone’ loud and proud.

Lucky Armpit

I have been a very loud, vocal opponent of the word drone since the beginning (so much so that when I’m out to dinner and some idiot flies his DJI Phantom II over a crowd and I hear people point and yell, ‘look it’s a drone’ I walk over and correct them, only to get blank stares) and I’m very active in the aeromodeling community but aside from that there isn’t much else I can do.

A OnePlus Drone? Not very nice of them to talk about their employees that way…

Tyler Durden

Or Samsung or Apple; or anybody’s workers, amirite?

Ryan N

True. Those asian factories are those people’s entire lives. It’s like hell, but worse. When you get sick of living and working in the same building day in and day out, you can’t even jump off the roof cuz now they got suicidal employee nets… Smh…

shooter50

“Details are extremely scarce” yes, giving very little information is one thing One Plus is good at

CasperTFG

As an OPO user I’m disappointed in this DR-1. Could’ve dedicated that effort in a docking station, new styleswaps…